Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 20, Issue 6 , Pages 412-418 , July 2010

Cardiovascular disease in Middle Eastern women

  • N.M. Shara

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Received 27 October 2009 ,Revised 5 January 2010 ,Accepted 22 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2010.01.013

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 20, Issue 6 , Pages 412-418 , July 2010

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